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Title: [Andrew Berryhill (sic)]
Description: Advertisement proof showing the four-story establishment for Andrew Berrybill at 25 South Eighth Street adorned by a large mortar and pestle and a signboard that reads "Andrew Berryhill." The drugstore's display windows on the first floor are flanked by columns. A gentleman stands in the doorway as a laborer loads a barrel onto a horse-drawn dray in the foreground. Barrels and crates pulled from the cellar sit on the sidewalk. Andrew Berrybill tenanted this property from 1839-1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 20, New York Public Library: MEZDB (Duval)
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: New York Public Library NYPL MEZDB (Duval)

Title: South east view of West-town Boarding School. Chester Co. Penna. Instituted 1794, opened 1799, enlarged 1847
Description: Genre scene showing female students gathered on the main path and grounds at the west end of the main building of the co-educational Quaker boarding school. Girls stroll, converse, read under a tree, and hold hands in a game. Also shows a man with a young boy, and another man carrying two baskets, walking on the grounds landscaped with several trees. Westtown was established in 1794 by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls. The campus was separated into the girls' and boys' bounds, i.e., yards for recreation. Sledding, or coasting, was a favorite winter activity., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone., POSP 222, Westtown School Archives
Creator: Collins, John, 1814-1902, artist
Date: 1858
Location: Westtown School Archives WSA Collins color, Westtown School Archives WSA Collins bw

Title: David Chillas Lithographer, 50 S. 3rd St. Philada
Description: Advertisement for lithographer David Chillas active ca. 1852-1858 depicting a Gothic-inspired castle scene. Shows a lady seated in front of a large Gothic-style ornamented window overlooking the ocean. Two boys, a man, and dog surround her. A lyre rests next to her chaise lounge and a suit of armorand flags are displayed on a table across from her. Vinery borders and filters into the scene., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 15, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Graphic Arts GA 09640
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts Collection SI NMAH Graphic Arts GA 09640

Title: Lithographic Printers Union annual ball Ladies invitation. Jany. 25th, 1858
Description: Ladies' invitation to an annual ball for the Lithographic Printers Union illustrated by a fairy-like female figure with wings surrounded by flower bushes. Standing lightly on her toes, she holds fresh-picked roses in her right hand., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 135, The Lithographic Printers Union was instituted on February 28, 1854. Copy of their "Constitution and By-Laws for 1857" in the collections of the German Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Fred C. Munson, "History of the Lithographers Union," p. 1, suggests that a lithographic trade union existed in Philadelphia as early as 1843., New York Public Library: MEZDP, Courtesy of Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: 1858
Location: New York Public Library NYPL MEZDP

Title: Thomas Hunter, successor. Duval & Hunter's catalogue of oleograph publications for the season 1873-4
Description: Trade catalog containing an ornate front and back cover and two specimen pages of script promoting Thomas Hunter, former partner in Hunter & Duval (active 1869-1874). Front cover contains central vignette showing a woman with two cherubic figures seated on filigree. The woman writes on a lithographic stone and the figures hold a banner reading "Duval & Hunter" and a printing ink roller. Rear cover contains a wreath of medals awarded to predecessor firms P. S. Duval and Duval & Hunter. Medals, many from the Franklin Institute, enclose text reading "Duval and Hunter's Steam Lithographic Establishment. 19 First Premiums in Diplomas and Medals. 1841-1872" and contain inscriptions, dates, allegorical figures, seals, and busts of Benjamin Franklin and King Albert. Several of the medals reference color lithography and chromolithography., Also includes two specimen pages of script for "Duval & Hunter, Designer, Lithographers, and Chromo Publishers, Nos. 716-722 Filbert St. Philadelphia" that promote the services and prints supplied by the establishment, including "a liberal discount to the trade," "check books," "labels of all kinds," and "Portraits and Lithography in all its Branches." Catalog also contains preface "To the Trade" and title list with prices., Not in Wainwright., Title annotated with stamp Thomas Hunter, Successor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 102, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01
Creator: Duval & Hunter
Date: [1873]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Cover, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-ToTheTrade, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Insurance, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Back

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